Visual Plague
The Emergence of Epidemic Photography
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2022
Summary
In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894-1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544221 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262544229 |
| Author: | Christos Lynteris |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Inspiring not only for historians of medicine and biosciences photography more broadly, this book offers a deep understanding of multispecies entanglements as constitutive of epidemic visual cultures.”
—Isis
Christos Lynteris
Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and coauthor of Sulphuric Utopias (MIT Press).
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